I share with you the first 'public alpha' of the tool to vote for the best time on an International Call.

UX needs to be improved a lot, but I'd like to start understanding if this is the right compromise between simplicity and effectiveness.

Help me to break it, and share your feedback or ideas!
https://meet.gemugami.com/e/TJxRajE56MgFHFV

@eaplmx you should get the time zone automatically. The next screen is royally, and utterly, confusing. My two pence.

@eaplmx cool, how do we see the results? On mobil is looks and works fine but yeah there are stuff that can be done to improve the layout.

@darch you can watch current results here:
https://meet.gemugami.com/r/TJxRajE56MgFHFV

@bender On chrome-based browsers, it's getting your time zone automatically. I'm watching that on Firefox is not working, I'll take a look, perhaps the JS function is different in other browsers.

For the next part
> royally, and utterly, confusing
I laugh a bit at this one 😅
I agree. It's confusing, you get dizzy watching so many options, I'll explain in another twt. If anyone has some ideas on how to reduce that confusion, that would be great!

and
> my two pence
hey, glad to receive pence instead of cents 😀

Thank you for the feedback and your votes (Bananas, Søren Peter @darch, prologic) !

On the programming side, this problem is not that challenging (yet). Ask availability to your friends, and make some statistics with it, sum, sets. I think this will be done quickly.

On the product design and user interface sides, it has been challenging.
It's different if you ask to decide between Tue 9pm, Wed 9pm or Thu 9pm. vs. deciding two days, vs a whole week (24 x 7 = 168 possible options)

We have discussed getting inspiration from Doodle and Framadate but I find that is difficult to make it accessible, and for a week's view those are also confusing.


Currently, I'm focusing on the use case of deciding on a Weekly call on Fridays and Saturdays in the mornings or afternoons (about 48 different options), but I'm trying to find a better strategy. Perhaps divide and conquer (Fri mornings, Fri afternoons, Sat mornings, Sat afternoons)

What do you think?

Here I found some open-sourced alternatives https://opensource.com/article/22/4/open-source-alternatives-doodle-polls for inspiration

@eaplmx This is really cool. It works great without JavaScript, too.

To make the amount of options less confusing, how about putting each day into an HTML details element? Also, is the source available yet?

@mckinley thanks !
One goal is not requiring JS (but helps with some automations like finding your current timezone, copying URLs and such)

Using `details` sounds great, I'll take a look! https://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_details.asp

You can find the raw repo here: https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/meetup-planner